Mobile Tester Contracts

Mobile Tester
UK

The median Mobile Tester daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 695 830
Rank change year-on-year +105 +135 -158
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Tester 8 17 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.029% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.030% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 20
10th Percentile £215 £193 £286
25th Percentile £313 £245 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £461
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -18.70% +8.53%
75th Percentile £439 £495 £500
90th Percentile £468 £600 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £245 £463
% change year-on-year +63.27% -47.03% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

Mobile Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Mobile Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Tester in the UK

Mobile Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Tester.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Tester in the UK

Mobile Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Tester over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Tester in the UK

Mobile Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Tester.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Tester in the UK

Mobile Tester
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +122 7 £350 -6.67% 1
London +99 5 £350 -36.36%
UK excluding London +41 2 £400 +63.27% 1
North of England - 2 £400 -
Yorkshire - 2 £400 -

Mobile Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Mobile Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Mobile Tester in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Mobile App
2 6 (75.00%) Android
2 6 (75.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Degree
4 3 (37.50%) Appium
4 3 (37.50%) Kotlin
5 2 (25.00%) Swift
5 2 (25.00%) API Testing
5 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (25.00%) Functional Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (25.00%) Postman
5 2 (25.00%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (25.00%) XCUITest
5 2 (25.00%) Sentry
5 2 (25.00%) JIRA
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Web Services
5 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
5 2 (25.00%) HTTP
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Splunk
5 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
6 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 1 (12.50%) Git

Mobile Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Sentry
2 1 (12.50%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) Firebase
2 1 (12.50%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Appium
2 2 (25.00%) Charles Proxy
2 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) XCUITest
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Android
1 6 (75.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Programming
3 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Test Management
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Kotlin
2 2 (25.00%) Swift
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft